AppDynamics 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

Name: AppDynamics
Rating: 4.5 (41 reviews)

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Overview

AppDynamics

4.5

(41)

Pricing

Starting at $5.00 per month

About AppDynamics

AppDynamics is an AI-powered application performance management (APM) platform that provides businesses with complete observability over the performance of their IT infrastructure. Unifying full-stack performance monitoring, AppDynamics can turn IT performance into profit by providing insights and visibility over every component, from servers to cloud-native environments.

AppDynamics can manage, monitor, and analyze the performance of enterprise business applications with dynamic IT monitoring, application mapping, automatic issue detection, root-cause diagnosis, and real-time performance intelligence. With auto-discovery capabilities, AppDynamic can capture business transactions by tracking every component of any application and visualizing these components in a topology map. For performance monitoring, baselines are automatically created to track the fluctuating patterns of any performance metric. Automatic detection capabilities can identify performance anomalies and notify IT departments before the anomaly becomes an issue.

Additionally, AppDynamics can assist IT administrators with resolving issues in live environments by assessing application behavior and performance usin...

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AppDynamics Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $1.00

Free Trial

Free Version

Splunk AppDynamics

$6.00

per feature, per month

Plan includes:

Optimize hybrid and on-prem business application performance linked to business outcomes
Deliver peak performance of SAP environments
Pinpoint the impact of network, infrastructure, and database performance
Secure applications from inside runtime environments and reduce business risks
Deliver exceptional digital experiences with DEM, RUM, MRUM, and BRUM

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

$15.00

per user, per month

Plan includes:

Streaming analytics architecture
200+ out-of-the-box integrations for visbility across the entire stack
OpenTelemetry data ingestion and auto-discovery
Instant visualization
Customizable dashboards
Network Explorer for instant cloud-native network visibility
AI-driven real-time alerts
High-cardinality data analytics

Splunk APM

$55.00

per user, per month

Plan includes:

NoSample full-fidelity trace ingest
Streaming analytics to alert within seconds
Dependency aware service map for root-cause at a glance
Business Workflows to track important business KPIs
Seamless correlation with infrastructure metrics, RUM, and logs
AI-driven analytics for faster troubleshooting
OpenTelemetry data ingestion
AlwaysOn continuous code profiling

Splunk RUM

$14.00

Plan includes:

NoSample full-fidelity trace ingest
OpenTelemetry based data collections via supported integrations
High cardinality
Core web vitals and W3C standards
Open Telemetry Standardization
Visibility and correlation with Splunk APM

Splunk Synthetic Monitoring

$1.00

Plan includes:

Browser tests
API tests
Uptime tests
Lighthouse scores
Core web vitals
50+ modern performance metrics
Private locations

Splunk On-Call

$5.00

per user, per month

Plan includes:

Streamlined, simplified on-call incident management
Mobile-first incident response
Fast TTV: All industry leading integrations included out-of-the-box
Reduce time to resolution with streamlined cross-team collaboration
Bi-directional IT service management integrations

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AppDynamics Features

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Asset Tracking
Data Collection
Data Synchronization
ETL
For IoT Devices
Multiple Data Sources
Real-Time Analytics
More features of AppDynamics
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Notifications
Analytics
Anomaly Detection
API
Application-Level Analysis
Application Management
Baseline Manager
Big Data Analytics
Bottleneck Identification
Capacity Analytics
Capacity Management
Container Monitoring
Cost Management
Customizable Reports
Dashboard
Dashboard Creation
Data Aggregation
Database Monitoring
Data Import/Export
Data Mapping
Data Migration
Data Storage Management
Data Visualization
Dependency Tracking
Diagnostic Tools
Funnel Analysis
Graphical User Interface
Historical Trend Analysis
Integrated Development Environment
Issue Auditing
Issue Tracking
IT Monitoring
Monitoring
Multi-Cloud Management
Performance Analysis
Performance Management
Performance Metrics
Performance Monitoring
Prioritization
Push Notifications
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Monitoring
Real-Time Notifications
Real-Time Reporting
Real-Time Updates
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Resource Management
Resource Optimization
Revenue Tracking
Root Cause Analysis
Security Tools
Server Monitoring
Third-Party Integrations
Troubleshooting
Uptime Reporting
Virtualization
Visualization
Widgets

AppDynamics User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

56%

34%

10%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.1

Value for money

4.0

Customer support

4.0

Functionality

4.6

peter a.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

The WoW moment of AppDy

Appdynamics was wonderful and the wow moment in our environment

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Appdynamics is a great 360 view tool to use for any application environment. I like the application, server and even the network flow monitoring of the application. My best part of the application feature is it drill down capability in determine root cause of an issue.

Cons:

The setup is not ease and requires a lot of expertise. I also do not like the the fact that every component is billed or must purchase license to use.

Reasons for choosing AppDynamics

We chose Appdynamics over Dynatrace as it promised to give as a 360 view of our environment

Verified

Reviewer

Insurance

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2025

Easy-to-use and powerful monitoring tool

Overall AppDynamics is very helpful in tracing all the transactions of your application, in creating astounding dashboard with various metrics and in reducing your MTTR when there are issues.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Great tool to monitor applications, very powerful in tracing transactions and monitoring all the most important metrics.

Cons:

Can be sometimes difficult to write custom queries for specific in-depth analysis, because it uses its own query language. Some features are quite pricey.

Reasons for choosing AppDynamics

AppDynamics seemed to satisfy all our requirements.

Vaibhav S.

Verified reviewer

Oil & Energy

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2025

Losing the shine

AppD used to be our niche Observability platform for on-prem and traditional tech stacks. But with the advancements around SaaS, cloud native and GenAI based applications, we have found AppD lagging behind as compared to other popular monitoring platforms.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The Application flow map in AppDynamics showing live business interactions between applications tiers is simply outstanding. No hidden costs and does what says on the tin for the procured licenses. Robust monitoring for traditional tech stacks.

Cons:

Slow product development pipeline, it takes ages for Cisco to come up with modules for enabling monitoring for modern SaaS and cloud native applications. No tagging support. Loose integration with AIOPS platforms.

Verified

Reviewer

Internet

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2022

AppDynamics - why to choose it

I was able to keep monitoring the performance of a complex ecosystem. Thanks to the product I have a clear vision of the full architecture including the communication/flow between different services part of the solution. With the alert notification, I am able to keep monitoring the performance of the system (I can immediately understand if something is going bad after a delivery for example) and the error. Moreover I can check the status of the servers running the solution.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The possibility to go into detail in case of error. You can arrive to the line of code having the issue. At the same time, in case of bad performance, you are able to know what was happening at that moment. I would add also the alert section, it helps you to trigger alarm when it is needed. That may be fantastic for the team managing the operation / support h24. This team may be also helped by the dashboard that the users of AppDyn can create.

Cons:

Setup of the Agent - there are other products doing better this part (the concept of OneAgent available for example in Dynatrace). Setup complex in case of SAP ecosystem. Real User Monitoring - the products specialized on this topic (doing only this) are better than AppDynamics. At the same time, with AppDyn you can have the monitoring end to end (from the final users to the specific server)

Reasons for choosing AppDynamics

The set of features leads the decision. This was the main driver, AppDynamics is one of the best solutions in the market.

John k.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2025

Expensive but will save me time this weekend

AppDynamics allows us to determine why the micro services are failing before we get bombarded by customer complaints on Twitter. It follows the path of the request so I don't have to sift through millions of log files.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I thought the tall would bring all of our legacy systems down but it did not. I like that our tech support group receive email back without needing to press the answer on this but it is also a plus if the agent can identify themselves and I don't have to do it.

Cons:

My biggest complaint with the cost is that my manager is constantly complaining about the bill we get each month. I specifically complain about the alerting profiles where if I want to remove an individual object from a zone I can't just unselect it. I have to select every other object individually which is tedious and inane.

Wes P.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2025

AppDynamics is the best at testing your App's UI Responsiveness

I use it for testing my app, to get a handle on what the end user experience will be. Must avoid end user getting frustrated by waiting to long for results, want highly responsive user interface.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's the best at monitoring end to end performance of your app, and therefore it can identify problem locations no matter what part of the stack they pop up in.

Cons:

It can take a large investment of time to setup, many pieces are complex and difficult to understand. The price is steep compared to the competition.

Alejandra T.

Verified reviewer

Computer & Network Security

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2025

A very useful tool to manage and determine Apps performance

The platform is very useful to obtain and verify SLA for Customer Service when using web and Mobile Applications.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

With this software we can have a full evaluation of Applications Performance and quickly determine and fix problems, having an end-to-end trace.

Cons:

At first, we rely on our people for troubleshooting, and we had delays. Now, we are using an experienced partner and everything works really fine.

vikram s.

Verified reviewer

Banking

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2023

Best tool Monitor Application Performance and troubleshooting the Application issues

AppDynamics is best application performance monitoring tool. It has best GUI , We can easy visualize all things on dashboard. We can monitor cpu utilization, memory utilization and Disk I/O.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is very easy to install and integrate with application. It will monitor application API, database and server. We can set alert and email notifications. Also we can trigger script or specific action based on requirements. It is best monitoring tool available in market. It will help to troubleshoot application issue. We can collect all thread dump and analyze to find put application performance issue.

Cons:

I haven't found any issue yet. It is working preety well.

Satish C.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2020

One of the best Application performance monitoring tools

Awesome product to analyse transactions

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to drill down to ground zero, helps in faster triage of transaction failures.

Cons:

A little complex for novice users. Too many steps to follow

Reasons for choosing AppDynamics

AppDynamics features

sonal j.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2017

This tool is amazing in terms of performance bottleneck analysis and user friendliness

Integration with load runner

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The good thing about the tools is its integration with the load runner tool for performance testing We can get the exact method and class names from the code which helps in finding the bottleneck

Cons:

Some flex calls cannot be captured with the appdynamics so cannot be used for the flex coded developed applications. Extra license cost for the database monitoring can be more structured

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